Combining Both My Fixations With This One - Blog Posts

Giving Dan-Da-Dan characters Pokemon teams pt. 1

Pt. 2 Pt. 3

Reasons for the Pokemon under the cut

Clefable - I wanted him to have Pokemon that related to his interest in aliens and Clefable is implied to be from space. I like to think that Cleffa is the first Pokemon he ever got and helped to further spark his interest in extraterrestrials.

Beheeyem - Similar to Clefable it's based on aliens but it's also based on trenchcoat wearing paranormal investigators and Okarun would for sure be a big fan of that. Plus, it takes more inspiration from Western Sci-fi tropes and Okarun is also into that.

Lapras - I wanted some of his Pokemon to be based on cryptids as well and Lapras is partially based on the Loch Ness Monster.

Dunsparce - Same with Lapras, it's based on a cryptid but with the added note that it's based on the Tsuchinoko so it's also a reference to that one scene in Episode 11.

Orbeetle - It's first stage evo, Blipbug, literally looks like Okarun with the hair and the glasses. Plus, Orbeetle is partially inspired by UFOs and has many alien like qualities to it.

Smeargle - Not much to this one tbh. I mostly added it cause Okarun likes to draw and I wanted him to have a Pokemon that showed that though I can see it being traded out for a Zangoose since it matches his Turbo form and it's got a pretty similar disposition.